My patients teach me so much! Shame can feel so real in the moment, during the hard times we go through, but it can become the lesser of two evils when we choose it over an emotion too hard to feel. So I just got off the phone with one of my favorite patients (yes I have favorites), and she said she had been exploring shame, writing everything down that she feels shame about. She tells me she has read it over, and, as she is intelligent beyond anything you’ve ever seen, she calls herself on her own bullsh$t.
She knows her shame over running only 3 miles is crap, as she’s even telling me. She KNOWS:
1. She can run a longer time.
2. Others don’t run that in a week.
3. She actually feels completely out of control of her world situation, and wants something to fix.
She already knows her own defense mechanism. And here’s the funny thing. My patients totally know what they’re doing, when they’re doing it, and why. This is why I love this population. They are more self aware than anyone I’ve EVER met. The genius level in these self-punishing people is astounding if you listen. She told me EVERYTHING I needed to know to support her in the way she needed to feel support. Because I listened. Difficult but not complex, hard but simple. Just. Listen.
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